This Little Patch Can Save Patients From Impending Heart Attacks

Way more consequential than a Fitbit, Philips's wearable heart monitor warns doctors of possible danger before it becomes life threatening.

Many sudden health emergencies have warning signs, even up to eight hours before they happen. The problem is there usually isn't an expert around to spot them—unless that expert is an algorithm. That's the promise for people with heart ailments of the new Phillips Wearable Biosensor (its working name). The a 4.6 by 1.6 inch, one-use patch monitors key vital signs and streams them wirelessly to a cloud-based service called IntelliVue Guardian that looks for early indications of trouble and sends alerts to doctors via their smartphones or tablets.

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